P. 387. Burnet.  It was said, a standing Parliament changed the constitution of England.—­Swift.  The present case under King George.

Ibid.  Burnet.  It was moved, that an address should be made to the King for dissolving the Parliament.—­Swift.  Tempora mutantur; for nothing now will do but septennial Parliaments.

P. 388 Burnet.  He [Lord Russell] had from his first education an inclination to favour the Non-conformists.—­Swift.  So have all the author’s favourites.

P. 392. Burnet.  But with these good qualities Compton was a weak man, wilful, and strangely wedded to a party.—­Swift. He means, to the Church.

Ibid.  Burnet.  Bancroft, Dean of St. Paul’s, was raised to [the see of Canterbury]. ...  He was a man of solemn deportment, had a sullen gravity in his looks, and was considerably learned.  He had put on a monastic strictness, and lived abstracted from company. ...  He was a dry, cold man, reserved, and peevish; so that none loved him, and few esteemed him.—­Swift.  False and detracting.

P. 396. Burnet.  My way of writing history pleased him [Sir William Jones].—­Swift.  Very modest.

P. 399. Burnet.  Men were now though silent, not quiet.—­Swift.  Nonsense, or printer’s mistake.  It should be, “Silent, though not quiet.”

Ibid, Burnet.  One Carstairs, a loose and vicious gentleman.—­Swift.  Epithets well placed.

P. 404. Burnet.  It was an extraordinary thing that a random cannon shot should have killed him [Turenne].—­Swift.  How extraordinary?  Might it not kill him as well as another man?

P. 406. Burnet, in the battle at St. Omer between the Prince of Orange (afterwards King William) and the Duke of Orleans:—­some regiments of marines, on whom the Prince depended much, did basely run away.  Yet the other bodies fought so well, that he lost not much, besides the honour of the day.—­Swift.  He was used to that.

P. 407. Burnet.  These leading men did so entangle the debates, and over-reached those on whom he had practised, that they, working on the aversion that the English nation naturally has to a French interest, spoiled the hopefullest session the court had had of a great while, before the court was well aware of it.—­Swift.  Rare style!

P. 409. Burnet, Lord Danby, speaking to King Charles II., said:—­If they saw his [the Duke of York’s] daughter given to one that was at the head of the Protestant interest, it would very much soften those apprehensions, when it did appear that his religion was only a personal thing, not to be derived to his children after him.  With all this the King was convinced.—­Swift.  Then how was the King for bringing in Popery?

P. 413. Burnet.  His friend answered, He hoped he did not intend to make use of him to trepan a man to his ruin.  Upon that, with lifted up hands, Sharp promised by the living God, that no hurt should come to him, if he made a full discovery.—­Swift.  Malice.